Andy Tattersall @andytattersall.bsky.social Open Research Communications Specialist .
Trouble-shooter, techy, writer, podcaster, trainer and speaker.
Research communications and impact trainer - consultant for hire.
https://www.andytattersall.com/
https://linktr.ee/andy_tattersall
CRAFT-OA project, aiming for Diamond Open Access @craft-oa.bsky.social #EOSC #OpenAccess https://www.craft-oa.eu/ 23 partners, 14 European countries crafting equitable, #FAIR, inclusive & bibliodiverse publishing system. We support Diamond Open Access publishing for journals.
Stéise @booksparrow.bsky.social Left-handed book wrangler: Systems, Metadata & Cataloguing. Librarian📚
Likes heritage, social history & folk
🏳️🌈 unapologetically femme. Occasionally wears clogs/dances with swords.
Expect Typos
UK Reproducibility Network @ukrepro.bsky.social The UK Reproducibility Network (UKRN) is a national peer-led consortium that aims to promote and enable rigorous, robust, transparent, and reproducible research in the UK.
https://www.ukrn.org/ #AcademicSky #OpenResearch #Research
@sal-lib.bsky.social @sal-lib.bsky.social Retired academic librarian - Open Access, Open Science, Repositories. Piano, calligraphy, and gardening amongst other things :-)
Vanessa Freedman @vrfreedman.bsky.social Hebrew & Jewish Studies librarian at University College London. Co-convenor, Hebraica Libraries Group. Posts are my own views etc She/her
Meredith Farkas @librarianmer.bsky.social Community college librarian in Portland, OR. Solidarity, unions, slow librarianship, spoonie, autoimmune, still masking, disability justice. Blogging at Information Wants to be Free since 2004: meredith.wolfwater.com. 😷 🏳️🌈 🇵🇸
Elle Ann @libraryleo.bsky.social Cumbrian living in Devon, Systems Librarian, loves reading historical fiction about women by women, crocheting, and good food. Co-editor of NAG journal Taking Stock. Neurodivergent af.
Manchester Metropolitan University @manmetuni.bsky.social 
🏰𝕯𝖚𝖓𝖌𝖊𝖔𝖓𝖑𝖚𝖘𝖙🏰 @dungeonlust.com 🔮Cur’ating all things Fantasy🔮
Lover of Fantasy Art, Film & Gaming
Artists Credited • I do not share GenA/I images
Check my starter packs for artists to follow!
🔗 dungeonlust.com
🗡️ https://ko-fi.com/dungeonlust
✨Cur’ated by @dungeonbitch.bsky.social
Varina @varinajr.bsky.social Librarian and open knowledge advocate at UofAberdeen. Lover of cats, yarn, tea, and liberation for all. All views my own, and do not reflect the views of my employer. 🍵💙💜💗✡️🫒🍉
Kirsten the (ex) Librarian @librarykirsten.bsky.social Formerly Research Intelligence Librarian and NHS librarian. Co-founder of Fair Library Jobs. UCU member. Equity, pedantry, cats. She/her.
Hannah Shelley, MLIS (Metadata, Lattes & Impostor Syndrome) @hannahshelley.site Librarian, creative technologist, award-winning scholarly memeologist
📍 Dharug country (Sydney, Australia)
Blog/Shrine to the 2000s internet hannahshelley.neocities.org
The Athletic | Football @theathleticfc.bsky.social Every football story that matters. Breaking news. In-depth analysis.
🔗 https://www.nytimes.com/athletic
LSE Press @lsepress.bsky.social 🔓 Social sciences publisher. Equitable open access. Based at @lselibrary.bsky.social | press.lse.ac.uk
Drew Shields (commissions open) @gnarlyghost.bsky.social Illustrator / Animator
✨⚡️🤖☠️🦂🍑⚡️✨
www.gnarlyghost.com
Knowledge Commons @kcommons.bsky.social Formerly Humanities Commons. Discover the latest open-access scholarship and teaching materials, make interdisciplinary connections, build a WordPress website, and increase the impact of your work by sharing it in KCWorks.
Alicia Wise @wisealic.bsky.social Keen on accessibility, archaeology, digital preservation, goats, libraries, open access, open science, publishing, and running
DrVikkiG (she/her) @drvikkig.bsky.social Engagement Librarian. Knows a bit about music halls. Reader. Working on being a writer. Northern accent. #manchester
punctum 🌈 books: spontaneous acts of scholarly combustion @punctumbooks.bsky.social punctum books is a queer, scholar-led Open Access press devoted to creative modes of inquiry across a whimsical para-humanities assemblage. Affiliated with UC-Santa Barbara Library & funded by university libraries across the globe. https://punctumbooks.com
Marcel LaFlamme @marcellaflamme.bsky.social Helping research libraries support the future of scholarship. Anthro PhD, Quaker, Western Mass returner 🏳️🌈 Views my own.
depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social hi i'm @annierau.bsky.social i love wikipedia! dm submissions if you want :-)
TECH SY @techsy.bsky.social A project to scale up the South Yorkshire tech and digital economy on behalf of the South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority. Sharing news and insights from the region's tech sector.
White Rose Libraries @whiteroselibraries.bsky.social The university libraries of Leeds, Sheffield, and York. Supporting shared repositories, White Rose University Press, and innovating through collaboration.
Visit our website: whiteroselibraries.org
Uni of Sheffield Special Collections, Heritage and Archives SCHA @uoscollections.bsky.social 🎪National Fairground and Circus Archive
📜Special Collections and Archives
🖼️University Heritage Collection
📚University Archives
tinyurl.com/unisheffSCHA
The University of Sheffield @sheffielduni.bsky.social We're a QS World Ranking Top 100 University changing lives through education and research since 1905.
linktr.ee/sheffield
Kira Hopkins @kirahopkins.bsky.social LSE library, formerly of the Copim project, OA enthusiast, publisher (sometimes!) - all views expressed are personal
Kit de Waal @kitdewaal.com Optimist, writer, swearer. common person. Co-founder Big Book Weekend with @MollyFlatt. Proud Primadonna. Professor, University of Leicester. FRSL. Photo by Paul Chambers. No DMs please. To email use contact@kitdewaal.com
London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk Critical thinking, published every fortnight.
Read at lrb.co.uk
Try the LRB for just £6: lrb.me/social
ESPN FC @espnfc-m.bsky.social mirror of https://x.com/ESPNFC
All things football. All the time.
David Ornstein @david-ornstein.bsky.social Football Correspondent, The Athletic
Emma Sanders @emsandersbbc.bsky.social Senior women’s football news reporter for BBC Sport. Write about football a lot. ✍🏻 Often talk rubbish on TV and radio 📺 📻 Always complain about trains. Views mine.
Umberto Albarella STOP THE GENOCIDE! @umbertoalbarella.bsky.social Father, Green, Pacifist, Nonviolent, Anarchist, Archaeologist, Anti-fascist, Anti-racist, Unionist, Women rights, Gay rights, Trans rights, Refugees welcome, No-borders, Respect the animals, Jazz, Wildlife, Humanity.
Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social Space politician. ‘’Face of the Establishment’. Sane.
Bryony Hooper @bryonyhooper.bsky.social Digital Preservation Manager at the University of Sheffield. Interested in digipres, RM, archives and human rights.
All views expressed are my own.
OAPEN Foundation @oapenbooks.bsky.social OAPEN connects libraries, publishers, researchers, and funders with a global infrastructure for peer-reviewed open access books to advance research and the public good.
Explore our collection of 40,000+ OA books: https://library.oapen.org
Andy Kershaw Media @andyksheff.bsky.social Award winning former BBC Journalist, Training Manager with syfab.org.uk (part of sycf.org.uk) Charity Consultant & Funding Adviser, Trustee and Active Citizen in Sheffield
Harold Richer @haroldricher.bsky.social Illustrator, goblin, monsters enjoyer. Cute & weird drawings.
#noAi
Commissions open !
Contact : richerharold@proton.me
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70s Sci-Fi Art @70sscifiart.bsky.social Get my art book 'Worlds Beyond Time!' https://linktr.ee/70sscifiart
Publishers Weekly says my "obvious love for the form animates the volume." And I'll animate again! I'll never stop animating volumes
Thomas Padilla @thomaspadilla.bsky.social Librarian and Community Builder
https://www.thomaspadilla.org/
Sarah Polkinghorne @sarahpolk.bsky.social Libraries, info sci, qual research, science, film, art. Knit fast; lift heavy.
https://www.sarahpolkinghorne.ca/
Megan Eve @meganeve.eurosky.social Existential non-thinker. Librarian. Winging life terribly - winging eyeliner better. Directed by two void cats. Never serious. Likes wine, whining, naps, & annoying myself. Described as "Eeyore as a scarecrow" & being "a bit whimsy in my goth"🔮🌙 she/her
Roger Luckhurst @theprofrog.bsky.social academic/freelance writer, on Gothic, Horror film, Science Fiction. Latest: Graveyards: A History of Living with the Dead (2025). Next 2 books: a taxonomy of the undead and a biography of H P Lovecraft
Stu’s Football Flashbacks @stusfootyflash.bsky.social Nostalgic football blog & memories. Published writer. Obsessed with The Impossible Job. David Platt enthusiast. All clips shared from YouTube. ⚽️
Jen Hillyard @mininglibrarian.bsky.social Library & Archives Manager at The Common Room in Newcastle and Business Development Manager for NAG. Ex Carnegie-Greenaway judge. Mobility issues thanks to MCTD - I’m the one with the purple crutches...
Disabled 🏳️🌈 parent.
Bluemoose Books @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social Indy publisher of award winning literary fiction
You can order books here : www.bluemoosebooks.com 
Danny Kingsley @dannykay68.bsky.social Scholarly Communication - all of it, Open Research, research assessment, research culture, research integrity. They are parts of the same whole.
😶 stuart reeves 😶 @5tuartreeves.bsky.social ACADEMIC PERSON
@UoNComputerSci, @UniOfNottingham, @TheOfficialMRL +
@HorizonDER
❑ RESEARCH COMBINES HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION (#HCI) + ETHNOMETHODOLOGY (#EMCA)
Holly Ranger @themauvedesert.bsky.social 📚 Open research / research data / libraries / research culture //
✍️ Critical ancient world studies / feminisms and classical reception / Sylvia Plath //
Mish Dalton @mishdalton.bsky.social Research and Library stuff @ UCD. Views my own
Giraffes! 🦒 Badminton! 🏸 Exclamation marks!
Contentedly discontent. #OABooks #ResearchCulture 
Tracey McKee @traceymckee.bsky.social Specialist Librarian. Mental Health. NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde (NHSGGC). Visit your local library! Views my own.
University of London Press @uolpress.bsky.social Opening up humanities research.
Passionate advocates for the humanities, we are a collaborative, non-profit and predominantly open access publishing partner to researchers and institutions, creating award-winning scholarly books.
https://uolpress.co.uk
Jeroen Sondervan @jeroenson.bsky.social Programme Leader Open Scholarly Communication at @opensciencenl.bsky.social | Dutch Research Council (NWO) | http://www.openscience.nl | co-founded @MediArXiv.bsky.social | #openaccess | views my own | posts in 🇳🇱 & 🇬🇧 | www.orcid.org/0000-0002-9866-0239
Katie Fraser @katie-fraser.bsky.social Librarian who loves technology & pop culture. Interests: #openresearch #openinfrastructure #scholcomm #bibliometrics #persistentidentifiers Working @lborouniversity.bsky.social ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0844-8734
Sheffield Tribune @sheffieldtribune.bsky.social Sheffield's new quality newspaper — sent via email to over 34,000 readers. Join for free at the link below. Always looking for new writers and new stories — DM us.
www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk
Street Art Utopia @streetartutopia.com We declare the world as our canvas!
Blog Posts about inspiring street art: https://streetartutopia.com/
#streetartutopia #streetart #graffiti #publicart #mural
Mastodon: https://mastodon.online/@streetartutopia
Ithaka S+R @ithakasr.bsky.social Ithaka S+R provides research and strategic guidance to help the academic and cultural communities navigate economic, demographic, and technological change.
In the Library with the Lead Pipe @libraryleadpipe.bsky.social Open access, open peer reviewed journal on all things librar*, established in 2008. New articles published seasonally-ish. There are no Article Processing Charges or any other charges associated with publishing.
http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org
Bryan’s Gunn @bryansgunn.bsky.social A football man
Duncan Alexander @oilysailor.bsky.social Luxury sports content | @theathleticfc.bsky.social
Programming Historian @proghist.bsky.social Award-winning Diamond Open Access journals of digital methods for the humanities.
https://programminghistorian.org • https://tinyurl.com/support-PH • https://linkedin.com/company/prog-hist
Mark Huskisson @markhusk.bsky.social All opinions are mine (sometimes I do not agree and are subject to change without notification). Scholarly Publishing Technology | Open Infrastructure | Consultant | Dive Bar Enthusiast | Open Science
Paula Kennedy @paulakennedy.bsky.social Head of Publishing @uolpress.bsky.social. Interested in all things books, humanities and open access (amongst other things…). Chair of @oipassoc.bsky.social. T1D.
Jisc @jisc.bsky.social Jisc: for the future of education and research
For more than 30 years, Jisc has pioneered digital solutions for UK education and research, transforming how knowledge is created, shared and used.
www.jisc.ac.uk
Tim Burgess @tim-burgess.bsky.social Charlatan, solo artist, producer, DJ, coffee drinker, author & award winning radio presenter.
WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com Your Only Source For Professional Dog Ratings
nonprofit: @15outof10.org ❤️🩹
links.weratedogs.com
Public Knowledge Project @pkp.sfu.ca PKP, a Core Facility of SFU, is a community-governed organization dedicated to increasing the quality, access, and reach of non-commercial #ScholarlyPublishing — the trusted and original home of #OpenJournalSystems (#OJS), OMP, and OPS: https://pkp.sfu.ca
Tom Stafford @tomstafford.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy "A vast confusion of vows, wishes, actions, edicts, petitions, lawsuits, pleas, laws, proclamations, complaints, grievances, are daily brought to our ears. "
🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://mastodon.online/@tomstafford, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
Wonkhe @wonkhe.bsky.social Home of the higher education debate
www.wonkhe.com
Editor in Chief @markleach.bsky.social
Andy Zaltzman @zaltzcricket.bsky.social Comedian, Cricket Statistician, Podcaster. Host of The Bugle podcast and BBC Radio 4's The News Quiz. Taskmaster champion. Test Match Special statsmonger. Live shows: andyzaltzman.co.uk
James Richardson @acjimbo.bsky.social Hosts @totallyshow.bsky.social, a podcast about football
Lesley English @lesley-e.bsky.social Head of Academic Engagement & Teaching Services at Man Met Uni. Posts about HE libraries, EDI, wellbeing & belonging. Views my own.
Hardy Schwamm @hardyschwamm.bsky.social Library, Open Science and related Open stuff, Ireland-based, UCC (University College Cork)
Ruth MacMullen (Mallalieu) @ruthmacmullen.bsky.social Work in Oxford, live in Sheffield. Open research, music, cooking, keeper of small child, neverending house project.
Anna Hughes @anna-r-hughes.bsky.social Development and engagement manager @jisc.bsky.social
Outreach & Engagement committee @uksg.bsky.social
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0003-7210-3199
NLISN @nlisn.bsky.social Neurodiverse Library and Information Staff Network, Supporting Neurodivergent Talent in Library & Information Staff in the UK & Ireland. Find us at NLISN.org
Banner: Photo of NLISN committe at UKSG Conference by
@mattjhodgkinson.scicomm.xyz.ap.brid.gy
Sheffield UCU @sheffielducu.bsky.social Updates from the University of Sheffield branch of the University and College Union.
Join us today: join.ucu.org.uk
Website: ucu.group.shef.ac.uk
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/uosucu/
LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/sheffield-ucu-399b5240a
Our Favourite Places @ourfaveplaces.bsky.social A Sheffield culture guide written by in-the-know locals.
https://ourfaveplaces.co.uk
From Eleven Design: https://elevendesign.co.uk.
Organisers of Photomarathon Sheffield: http://photomarathonsheffield.co.uk.
R.E. Sanders @resandersauthor.bsky.social Fantasy author of: Demon's Tear, Book one of the Jantakai Saga; A Path of Blades (novel); and Tann's Last Stand (novella). All available on Amazon. World builder. Brit. Wales.
https://linktr.ee/resandersauthor
OASPA - The Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association @oaspa.bsky.social Representing a diverse community of organisations engaged in open scholarship, we work to support open access becoming the predominant model of publication.
oaspa.org
Conference registration at https://buytickets.at/oaspa
@albionhistory.bsky.social @albionhistory.bsky.social 
Oldfirmfacts @oldfirmfacts.bsky.social 4x SFSA ‘Best Writer’ winner. Writing, podcasts, radio, live shows. Anti-your-team agenda.
White Rose University Press @wrunipress.bsky.social White Rose University Press is the UK's first jointly-run open access non-profit digital university press, from the Universities of Leeds, Sheffield and York.
LSE Impact @lseimpactblog.bsky.social 💥A platform for those interested in increasing the impact of academic research. 📨 Subscribe to our newsletter here: https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/subscribe-via-email/
Dr Beth @drbeth.bsky.social The librarian formerly known (on twitter) as @Phdgeek. Into nerdy stuff, open research, EDI campaigning, powerlifting and climbing. 🏳️🌈
Ned Potter @nedpotter.bsky.social Right then, this is the one. I'm all in.
Libraries, Higher Ed, communications, and life.
As a freelancer I run workshops on marketing, social media and presentation skills: https://www.ned-potter.com/training
Kate O’Neill @katefoneill.bsky.social Former librarian, still disputatious, still banging on about open research. Obsessive sports watcher and inveterate wanderer.
Librarianth @librarianth.bsky.social University of York Acquisitions Librarian. Professional Northerner. Bang on about armchair politics, books, ebooks, coffee, & Boro. Views/opinions personal. UTB
Rosie Higman @rosiehigman.bsky.social Open research nerd. Librarian. Part-time PhD student. Parent. Cycling in my spare time. LwiththeT
aj-boston.neocities.org @aj-boston.bsky.social 
Fobazi M. Ettarh @fobettarh.bsky.social Academic. Librarian. Creator of the concept “vocational awe.” PhD student at UIUC’s iSchool. Game designer of Killing Me Softly.- S Siobhan @siobhanh.bsky.social Systems & Discovery Manager (Librarian) |
Open Access, Publishing, Diversity, IT, Libraries & (Digital) Collections.
Tech, cooking and moorwalking |
She/Her | Views (unfortunately) my own.
Em Nunn @ebnunn.bsky.social open research / open access / academic publishing / unions / queer stuff / parenting / usually found in and around Sheffield (she/they)
Emma Booth (she/her) @emmabooth.eurosky.social Manchester Metadata Maven
#Metadata Librarian (UK) #OpenAccess & #OpenInfras supporter.
Discovery drives the Collection; Metadata drives Discovery; #MetadataMatters
Opinions my own.
https://linktr.ee/emmabooth
https://orcid.org/0009-0008-1390-2720
Josh Sendall @jsendall.bsky.social Acting University Librarian & Keeper of the Brotherton Collection @UoLLibrary @LULGalleries & Trustee @UKSG #OpenScience #MadeByDyslexia - personal views
Bethany @bethanylogan.bsky.social Associate Director at University of Sussex Library. UKSG Trustee. 
Darren Flynn (he/him/his) @patchedelbows.bsky.social Lecturer in Library and Information Studies at UCL.
PhD student researching social class in the academic library workforce.
Co-organiser of Critical Approaches to Libraries Conference (CALC) and member of Fair Library Jobs. 
Jenni Adams @jenniad.bsky.social Open research person | feminist | writer
Loves books and cats
Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org I research scholarly communication at Cambridge University Library / Cambridge Digital Humanities
PI: @morphss.bsky.social
New book: PUBLISHING BEYOND THE MARKET https://press.umich.edu/Books/P/Publishing-Beyond-the-Market
https://www.samuelmoore.org
Jonesthelibrary @jonesthelibrary.bsky.social I've left the creepy twitter treehouse now and am giving this a go, hoping for open and good natured conversation with colleagues on open research, scholarly publication, Library and global issues.